Dynamic expression of Cx47 in mouse brain development and in the cuprizone model of myelin plasticity
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Dynamic expression of Cx47 in mouse brain development and in the cuprizone model of myelin plasticity
Abstract
The study shows the dynamic expression of connexin47 (Cx47) in oligodendrocytes and myelin of mice, either in myelinogenesis occurring in early development or in an experimental model of new-myelinogenesis of adult mice. Cx47 first appeared in the embryonic mouse brain at E10.5 successively the expression increased, principally in regions populated by developing oligodendrocytes. The expression declined postnatally toward adulthood and immunoreactivity was restricted to a few specific areas, such as the corpus callosum, the striatum, the cerebellum, and the spinal cord. Since the expression of Cx47 in developing oligodendrocytes preceded those of Cx32 and Cx29, a role of Cx47 in myelinogenesis was postulated. This hypothesis was tested in a model of re-myelination, which principally involved the corpus callosum, occurring in adult mice by treatment with cuprizone. Cx47 was upregulated during demyelination and recovered during the remyelination phase. During demyelination, Cx47 was first over-expressed in the corpus callosum and later, when the myelin virtually disappeared in the injured areas, Cx47 was expressed in astrocytes located inside and closely around the demyelinated areas. The remyelination of injured areas occurred after stopping the administration of cuprizone and continued to complete recovery. In this period the expression of Cx47 shifted from astrocytes to newly-formed myelin. Thus, Cx47 exhibits in this model a transient and de novo expression in astrocytes with a topographic segregation in the injured areas, only when oligodendrocytes and the myelin were most severely affected. Taken as a whole the evidence suggests that Cx47 play a key role in myelination.
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